Duane said: > Epoxy has to applied in thin coats, usually two, to prevent drips. I > have coated about ten wooden paddles with epoxy and never had any drips. Do you use a slow-cure epoxy? I find that especially as it starts to cure, the normal-cure epoxy gets hard to brush out thin. Anyway, I found that epoxy doesn't protect the paddle from dings appreciably better than tung oil (unless you apply several layers -- and why go to all that effort?) and is harder to repair, especially if the last coat is polyurethane varnish. Chuck Holst Currently gluing together a new set of kayak saddles (with built-in storage for Greenland paddles) using West System epoxy. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Sep 12 2007 - 10:15:40 PDT
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